Windows 10: Is the New Address Box Size reversible? Win10-Taskbar

Hello Community,

I am having here a little problem with something that a recent windows update has changed.
For over 10 years now I am having my Taskbar set up in a certain way and I am really really used to having it that way.

As seen in the picture below, which shows several of my Taskbars from 2010 - 2020.
I am using a bottom Taskbar which is 3 Rows high so that it shows on the right side the full Time, Day & Date.
The Taskbar itself is split into 3 Areas
1. a 2 Rows high Area for the Tasks in the upper right corner,
2. a 2 Rows high Area for the QuickLaunchBar on the upper left corner and
3. a 1 Long Row for the AddressBar below.
Between the Taskbar and the Full Time/date is the 3x3 - 3x4 - 3x5 Tray Icons grid.

But now since the last Windows update, the AddressBar is now suddenly 2 Rows high forcing the tasks and the QuickLaunchBar into being only 1 Row high.
penultimate taskbar with the red circle on it

The Last Taskbar shows my current workaround for that problem I replaced the AddressBar with the Tasks
but I am here hoping that someone has some way to reduce the Hight of the AddressBar so that I can switch back to how it used to look before this update.

:)

 

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